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Chicago examiner * * * tuesday Chicago april 24 1917 tuesday 0 8 patent office " tll ujn Â±_ l jn 1 buburba two cents vol xv no 106 a m system tl uce is cf ec thompson in message to new council asks immediate action for lower level streets con structed at public expense points out that ownership is getting further away would combine traction fund with direct taxation to pay a city wide municipally owned and constructed subway sys tem was advocated by mayor thompson last night in a special aiessage to the city council the message pointed out that the council has rejected the 250,000 re port of the Chicago traction and sub way commission and that the city hould start at once with its traction mnd and special assessment levy to build a city-wide subway the commission's report recom mended unification of the surface and elevated lines a downtown sub way system general extension and rerouting of the surface and elevated tines an indeterminate franchise for the usiified systems and the expen diture of approximately 270,000,000 by the consolidated companies and rhe city to carry out the completed lan m j faherty president of the ooard of local improvements was the irst to suggest construction of a nunicipally owned subway system by means of special assessments city does not want a dinky subway it was pointed out in the message mat the city does not want a dinky Ã¼bway the mayor said the absence of sub ways has caused many chicagoans io move to suburbs because they ould get adequate steam car trans portation to such places he pointed out the consequent loss of revenue for he city for the last two years the mayor wrote i have left the solution of the traction question entirely in the hands of the city council he added an appropriation of 250,000 was made out of the traction fund and most of this amount has been ex pended in the employment of ex perts who made an exhaustive study of all phases of the traction question the result of their study is found in the report of the Chicago trac tion and subway commission on a united system of surface elevated and subway lines efforts to get long a franchise cited this report was made ' to the transportation committee and pub lic hearings have been held by it upon the matters covered therein subsequently the committee recom mended to council the adoption of a report looking toward the final accomplishment of the plan recom mended by the experts at the recent meeting of your honorable body the report of the committee and its recommenda tions were referred back to the committee for further considera tion since that time a inunlclpal election has been held anl a new council is con ened i deem it my duty thmefore to apprise you at once of v fiews and to suggest germans hurled back in new arras battle british on fit berlin claims repulse of attack in most terrific battle of the war english take scarpe bank twelve airplanes lost berlin via london april 23 â€” the new british offensive on the arras front was repulsed today with heavy casualties to the attackers according to the evening official communication issued by the war office london april 23 â€” the heaviest fighting of the war is in progress around arras the fighting to-day covered ap proximately an eight-mile front from south of vimy ridge to a point well below crolsilles at the north end of the attack the british swept over german fixed po sitions running almost due south from lens and captured long sections of german positions in front of the hindenburg line and a great number of prisoners the sky is alight for miles with the flashes of guns with star shells that spread a moonlight paleness over the battlefield and with varicolored rockets that flash signals to the art illery the cold east wind carries the echoes of the reverberating can nonade far back of the british lines 1.200 prisoners taken more than 1,200 prisoners were counted in this sector late to-day and others were still coming in the largest number of prisoners was from the one hundred and forty-first pomeranians who surrendered in hundreds after a very brief resist ance a battery of field guns also was taken was taken the british advance brings them face to face with the wotan line between gavrelle and croisilles the heaviest fighting occurred along both banks of the scarpe and around mon chy-le-preux where the â€¢ british easter advance had projected a sharp salient into the german lines monchy was taken in the first phase of the arras battle after three days fighting and has been held against desperate counter assaults the germans always managed to cling to the slopes of either side of the hill on which monchy-le-i*reu is perched this being the highest point east of arras and vimy overlooking the great broad eastern plains of northern france british make attack the germans to-day were throwing their full force into their resistance along the scarpe they had brought up strong reserves to oppose a fur ther british advance and had thrown in scores of new batteries of artillery the fighting about guemappe due south of monchy was extremely bit ter the attacking british waves went over in the half gray light of dawn it was still dark enough to make a fiery spectacle of the bar rage which crept ahead of them â€” a veritable wall cf exploding shells men who have been over several times under the protection of a bar ' rags are apt to grow a bit overcon clearing the way for the infantry fident in following the shells and occasionally get hit by bits flying back although virtually every shell bursts forward with a great spray of germans drive at petrograd warships sail london april 23 believed to mark the beginning of a drive at petrograd german transports have left llbau on the baltic south of the gulf of riga their destination is concealed accord ing to a dispatch from petrograd to-day it was reported also that a ger man battleship and cruiser squadron was en route to the russian baltic positions from kiel there were well-found d re ports last week that the germans were preparing to attack the northern front massing troops along the dvinsk-riga line and concentrating troops and war ships in baltic seaports russ promise fight to end state department assured there will be no effort for sepa rate peace washington april _.';.â€” russia will not conclude a separate peace with germany this was stated of ficially by the state department to day it says the department of state has re ceived a telegraphed report sup posedly from ambassador francis at petrograd on conditions in russia concern is shown over re ports of the possibility of a sep arate peace which have appeared in the press evidently inspired by germany hastened revolution the telegram says that russia is no more likely to abandon the war without achieving her object than is the united states it is pointed out that the charge that the impe rial administration was planning a separate peace caused its over throw and hastened the revolution which was brief and bloodless it is stated that the revolution will expedite the defeat of ger many and establishment of a gen eral peace permanent and uni versal the prompt recognition accorded russia by the united states the dispatch says could not have come at a more opportune moment and gave encouragement and help to the council of ministers and their supporters wilson speech head president wilson's thrilling allu sion to the russian revolution in his address to congress has made a deep and lasting impression on the russian people woman offers her blood for bernhardt new york april s â€” reports that blood transfusion was being con sidered to save the life of sarah bernhardt brought to mount sinai hospital to-day a young woman who said she was willing to give her blood she was told no operation had been decided on earl of shannon killed in battle london april 24 3:20 a m â€” richard bernard boyle seventh earl of shannon has been killed in ac tion he was a lieutenant of the royal fusiliers john f mcfadden hit by car dies john p mcfadden auditor of dis bursements for montgomery ward _ co died at the polyclinic hospital last night from injuries suffered a few minutes before when a street car struck him mr mcfadden lived at liosb sheridan road chicagoans form council of defense armour shedd judson farwell on committee 100 other cities called to league association of commerce backs move sends appeal to munici palities of the west plans for the formation of a chi cago council of national defense were outlined yesterday at a conference of business men j ogden armour john g shedd i john v farwell and harry pratt judson were named organizing mem bers of the conference mobilization of all the resources of Chicago will be the principal ob ject of the council which will work in co-operation with the national comicil at washington the full personnel of the council was not decided upon at yesterday's conference which was informal as soon as the council is raised sub committees will be appointed to take charge of the details of work the Chicago council of defense will work in conjunction with rraimkar organizations to be formed in more than a hundred cities and towns in the middle west through the Chicago association of commerce the communities have been invited to send delegates to a war conference to be held in Chicago next saturday cities invited to join the Chicago associatlon'c invita tion follows the Chicago association of com merce invites your city to send two delegates to a conference on the mobilization of all the nation's re sources to most effectively meet the war's demands to be held in Chicago on saturday april 28 1917 at tlie hotel la salle it will be the purpose of the meeting to form a permanent or ganization to co-operate fully with the federal administration through tlhe national council of defense in many cities throughout the country local councils of defense are being formed in recognition of the necessity of unifying and co relating the work of all local civic commercial and patriotic bodies now striving in every practical way to meet the present national crisis roosevelt to speak the convention will be called to order at 10 a m there will be a luncheon given by the Chicago as sociation of commerce at 12:30 o'clock the afternoon session will j be called at 2:30 o'clock and will ; receive and discuss the reports of committees on permanent organiz ation and speakers of national rep utation will discuss the plans pro posed at 8 p in there will be a mass meeting at which colonel theodore roosevelt will be the speaker 835 cities in move the idea of local councils of de fense originated with marlin j gil len of racine he sent an outline of racine's plan to chambers of com merce and commercial clubs in 535 cities and towns all over the united states within three or four days word was received that local coun cils had already been formed in rock island and moline 111 fort wayne ind and fort atkinson wis the formation of similar councils in mil | waukee Chicago and many other j cities and towns is already under way it is expected that as the result of i the conference to be held here satur ! day a permanent defense council of i the middle west will be formed with a central office in Chicago and an j able and experier ced executive sec retary in charge draft debate holds house in deadl ock passage of war department bill unamended by senate assured two branches work at odds politics charged as representa tives assert the measures con flict in conscription plans washington april 23 80th houses of congress to-day considered bills to raise an army for the war with germany universal military service through selective draft was discussed to the exclusion of all else debate was spirited in the house it grew bitter there proponents of the majority report from the military affairs committee advocating trial of the volunteer sys tem before conscription clashed with partisans of the minority report ad vocating immediate and universal compulsory military service neither measure as reported to the house is the war department bill â€” supported by the administration senate for bill that bill now irl the senate will be adopted with the selective draft section unamended exhaustive de bate is expected however by mem bers of the committee the failure of the house committee to report on the general staff bill has forced the two branches of con gress into working at cross purposes representative atwell of louisiana pointed out to-day he deplored the delay in raising and training troops an advocate of universal service he blamed politics and pleaded with the house to accept the senate bill facts uphold draft converts were won to the selective draft by the speech of senator wads worth of new york in the senate ke spoke for almost three hours an swering scores of questions he has made a special study of the military systems as developed in great wars in the house the real fight was on the immediate adoption of conscrip tion many insisted the volunteer system must be tried at least ap plause for speakers on both sides was so evenly divided not even leaders would predict the final action the draft was lashed as undem ocratic and against all traditions of a nation of freemen the volunteer system was assailed as a nursery of cowards and slackers it was charged it would keep them in com fort and plenty while patriotic men offered their lives on the field of battle galleries are divided hour after hour the debate was waged without a wavering in the lines on either side now stormy and bitter with question and retort crackling like lightning and again calm in reasonable and logical ap peal the house will vote thursday evening on whether the president shall be limited to trial of the volun teer system before he can make a military draft i it will also decide as an alternative whether he shall be empowered to call into military service all fit men ; between the ages of twenty-one and u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” showers tuesday and wednesday with slowly rising temperature fresh easterly winds temperature for twenty-four hours ending at _. a __. : highest 45j lowest w average 4 normal temperature for the day 49 deficiency of temperature sines january 1 i pntipitation lor twenty-four hours ending at 7 p m 04 i)eficieucy i,f precipitation since january 1 3.15 relative humidity 7 a m 90 li p m 64 7 p m 62 i harometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 ! a m 30.04 7 x m 30.03 sunrise to-d&y 4:55 sunset 6:41 ccmpl-te ffcr eminent report on page 13 strike spreads to hamburg food scarce copenhagen april 23 an american just arrived from hamburg says hamt^rg last week was affected by the same strike movement as berlin a big demonstration led even to sus pension of the card system for the day during which it was possible to buy bread and as far as available potatoes the american saw albert ballin director general of the hamburg - american steamship company who has close relations with the german authorities and confirms the report herr ballin expects an early peace straus charges a 1 5,000 plot confession made in state's at torney's office by two women accuses lawyer remus confessions which accuse george remus an attorney of endeavoring to extort 15,000 from arthur w straus vice president of s w straus & co mortgage bankers are in pos session of state's attorney hoyne the confessions were made by two women lesslng rosenthal and leo f wormser counsel for mr straus an nounced last night they will confer with the state's attorney to-day about the case girl witness in convent mrs edith m stone 5337 indiana avenue according to attorney rosen thal is one of the witnesses the name of the other â€” she is only nine teen ears old â€” was suppressed be cause she since has entered a con vent mr straus was introduced to airs stone and the young woman by a friend while dining at the brevoort hotel last december said mr ro senthal it wasn't until february that they went to remus office they expected to get 400 or 500 between them remus sent a letter to mr straus according to the con fessions of the women asking him to go to see him about the case breach of promise charged our client called remus up and asked him what he wanted and re mus said he had a young woman client who had a breach of promise suit against him the action he said was for 50,000 later mr straus received a letter stating if he did not settle suit would be started he then went to remus office first 15,000 was de manded then i_,ooo next 7,500 and finally 2,000 mr straus then con sulted mr wormsei he explained he had met the young woman once while dining and asked me what he should do interposed mr wormsei i told him if he want ed to be a coward he could settle but that he should go through with the matter and not pay one cent girl arrested confesses march 31 the younger woman was taken into custody by the state's at torney's office and according to as sistant statels attorney marvin e bernhart confessed to him her charges mr barnliart says were corroborated by mrs stone attorney rosenthal said it would be an injustice to disclose the name of the young woman she was left an orphan when fourteen years old when her mother died her father had deserted her and her mother when she was three years old mr straus is married and has two children living at 4715 drexel boule vard the examiner made diligent efforts to find mr remus last night his residence is given 4700 broadway no mr kemus is not here and hasn't been here for two weeks he doesn't live here any more said a woman who said she was mrs re mus at that address last night business men to vote upon taxes for war washington april 23.â€”sug gestions for financing the war drawn up by a committee of the chamber of commerce of the united states are increasing individual income taxes through supertaxes and low ering of exemptions 400,000,000 additions to the present excess profits tax 200,000,000 an increase of 50 per cent in the first-class postage rates 250,000,000 stamp taxes 100,000,000 excise taxes on articles of lux ury 500,000,000 u-36 reported captured here submarine said to have been en tangled in net at newport news taken by warship new york april 24 â€” the new tork herald prints the following newport news va april 23 â€” a prussian submarine the u-36 was caught in a net near newport news va accoi'ding to a circumstantial re port in circulation here to-day and she is either now on the way to the new tork navy yard at brooklyn or has arrived there the submarine is said to have been captured by the crew of one of the largest american battleships the submarine became entangled in a net and before she could back away the elevating planes became involved and she could not free herself immediately the warning was sounded and the officers and crew of the prussian undersea craft sur rendered the submarine was not seriously damaged and was placed in charge of competent men and with a con voy or a tow started for new york harbor the story of the capture of the u-36 came out here to-night when officers of a battleship came ashore gen j off re and viviani coming to Chicago general joffre world war hero and former field marshal of france is coming to Chicago with him will be premier viviani and the entire french war commission to the united states messages have been sent to mayor thompson the party will arrive in washington to-day or to morrow bernhardt rallies has chance for life by international news service new york april 23 â€” after twen ty-four hours of what was described as a pretty serious time sarah bernhardt was resting comfortably to-night one of the doctors said she has a chance but we are work ing pretty hard over her vernon castle trains aviators in halifax halifax april 22 â€” vernon cas tle r f c british army that's the title now of the dancer castle was discovered here to-day in charge of a detachment of aviators who will train recruits at toronto for the royal flying corps carter h harrison to raise regiment carter h harrison live times mayor of Chicago will raiss a regi ment here when ire returns firotn south america he say in a uiler to murray keller a chlcaep fv ll first u.s loan 500 million to britain j program for peace court will occupy prominent place in war mission's deliberations germany must surrender first president envoy and lansing confer whole resources of america pledged by executive allies aid also promised v washington april 23 the war can end only with a ger man appomattox geoffrey butler spokesman for the balfour war mission dismisse-d i all thought of immediate peacs tc day with this statement mr balfour is not thinkin peace said mr butler this war mission he has brought to the united states to give what assistance he can to your government in avoid ing the mistakes the british made at the beginning it was your general grant who said let us have peace but it was after appomattox that he uttered that sentiment 500,000,000 loan to britain agreed on the statement dismissing present peace discussions followed the fort five minutes conference of mr witl son and mr balfour at the whuej house secretary of state lansir.s was the only other person present the nature of the discussion will be learned only through the acts of the immediate future but it was m m nounced not less than 9500.000.000h the 7,000,000,000 war fund ml nvnilable to-day will be lcs^ed m great britain nh the nature of the discussion vh j be learned only through the acts mm the immediate future h among the plana to he dlscnsaed fh the balfour mission said to have h approval of the united states ix fl eminent is the establishment of h independent jewish stnte in fale^j tine the proposal is in line with fres l dent wilson's announced policy of aiding the smaller peoples to attain autonomy and it would have not only the support of the greater part of the jewish world but also of the christian world â€” in sentiment as least â€” as palestine has the most treasured monuments of the chris tian faith and it has long been the hope they could be wrested from the mohammedans gt among the entente powers tlilh is said to be a strong sentiment 1 favor of placing the jrroposed n-pi^b lie under the protectorate of h united states because of the ale^b nes.s of this country from europe^m politics mm tripartite conference to map world peace plan 1 when the business of the tripartii war conference is taken up iu i'tidrÃŸ tion to the problems of men food r._b money there will come before the conferees a eomprehensive plan for j the future peace of the world j diplomatic denials may be made j but it is known on absolute authority the far-seeing statesmen of the en-s tente which now includes the unitedh states are looking forward to a nlaaÃŸ nich embraces these essential d*-fl tails creation of a peace ctihiilsslob^j which shall adjudge the terms oi^-mw which the peaee of the world sfu^fl be fixed this commission sow ll mm i k on the for.tr of n mmw 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Chicago examiner * * * tuesday Chicago april 24 1917 tuesday 0 8 patent office " tll ujn Â±_ l jn 1 buburba two cents vol xv no 106 a m system tl uce is cf ec thompson in message to new council asks immediate action for lower level streets con structed at public expense points out that ownership is getting further away would combine traction fund with direct taxation to pay a city wide municipally owned and constructed subway sys tem was advocated by mayor thompson last night in a special aiessage to the city council the message pointed out that the council has rejected the 250,000 re port of the Chicago traction and sub way commission and that the city hould start at once with its traction mnd and special assessment levy to build a city-wide subway the commission's report recom mended unification of the surface and elevated lines a downtown sub way system general extension and rerouting of the surface and elevated tines an indeterminate franchise for the usiified systems and the expen diture of approximately 270,000,000 by the consolidated companies and rhe city to carry out the completed lan m j faherty president of the ooard of local improvements was the irst to suggest construction of a nunicipally owned subway system by means of special assessments city does not want a dinky subway it was pointed out in the message mat the city does not want a dinky Ã¼bway the mayor said the absence of sub ways has caused many chicagoans io move to suburbs because they ould get adequate steam car trans portation to such places he pointed out the consequent loss of revenue for he city for the last two years the mayor wrote i have left the solution of the traction question entirely in the hands of the city council he added an appropriation of 250,000 was made out of the traction fund and most of this amount has been ex pended in the employment of ex perts who made an exhaustive study of all phases of the traction question the result of their study is found in the report of the Chicago trac tion and subway commission on a united system of surface elevated and subway lines efforts to get long a franchise cited this report was made ' to the transportation committee and pub lic hearings have been held by it upon the matters covered therein subsequently the committee recom mended to council the adoption of a report looking toward the final accomplishment of the plan recom mended by the experts at the recent meeting of your honorable body the report of the committee and its recommenda tions were referred back to the committee for further considera tion since that time a inunlclpal election has been held anl a new council is con ened i deem it my duty thmefore to apprise you at once of v fiews and to suggest germans hurled back in new arras battle british on fit berlin claims repulse of attack in most terrific battle of the war english take scarpe bank twelve airplanes lost berlin via london april 23 â€” the new british offensive on the arras front was repulsed today with heavy casualties to the attackers according to the evening official communication issued by the war office london april 23 â€” the heaviest fighting of the war is in progress around arras the fighting to-day covered ap proximately an eight-mile front from south of vimy ridge to a point well below crolsilles at the north end of the attack the british swept over german fixed po sitions running almost due south from lens and captured long sections of german positions in front of the hindenburg line and a great number of prisoners the sky is alight for miles with the flashes of guns with star shells that spread a moonlight paleness over the battlefield and with varicolored rockets that flash signals to the art illery the cold east wind carries the echoes of the reverberating can nonade far back of the british lines 1.200 prisoners taken more than 1,200 prisoners were counted in this sector late to-day and others were still coming in the largest number of prisoners was from the one hundred and forty-first pomeranians who surrendered in hundreds after a very brief resist ance a battery of field guns also was taken was taken the british advance brings them face to face with the wotan line between gavrelle and croisilles the heaviest fighting occurred along both banks of the scarpe and around mon chy-le-preux where the â€¢ british easter advance had projected a sharp salient into the german lines monchy was taken in the first phase of the arras battle after three days fighting and has been held against desperate counter assaults the germans always managed to cling to the slopes of either side of the hill on which monchy-le-i*reu is perched this being the highest point east of arras and vimy overlooking the great broad eastern plains of northern france british make attack the germans to-day were throwing their full force into their resistance along the scarpe they had brought up strong reserves to oppose a fur ther british advance and had thrown in scores of new batteries of artillery the fighting about guemappe due south of monchy was extremely bit ter the attacking british waves went over in the half gray light of dawn it was still dark enough to make a fiery spectacle of the bar rage which crept ahead of them â€” a veritable wall cf exploding shells men who have been over several times under the protection of a bar ' rags are apt to grow a bit overcon clearing the way for the infantry fident in following the shells and occasionally get hit by bits flying back although virtually every shell bursts forward with a great spray of germans drive at petrograd warships sail london april 23 believed to mark the beginning of a drive at petrograd german transports have left llbau on the baltic south of the gulf of riga their destination is concealed accord ing to a dispatch from petrograd to-day it was reported also that a ger man battleship and cruiser squadron was en route to the russian baltic positions from kiel there were well-found d re ports last week that the germans were preparing to attack the northern front massing troops along the dvinsk-riga line and concentrating troops and war ships in baltic seaports russ promise fight to end state department assured there will be no effort for sepa rate peace washington april _.';.â€” russia will not conclude a separate peace with germany this was stated of ficially by the state department to day it says the department of state has re ceived a telegraphed report sup posedly from ambassador francis at petrograd on conditions in russia concern is shown over re ports of the possibility of a sep arate peace which have appeared in the press evidently inspired by germany hastened revolution the telegram says that russia is no more likely to abandon the war without achieving her object than is the united states it is pointed out that the charge that the impe rial administration was planning a separate peace caused its over throw and hastened the revolution which was brief and bloodless it is stated that the revolution will expedite the defeat of ger many and establishment of a gen eral peace permanent and uni versal the prompt recognition accorded russia by the united states the dispatch says could not have come at a more opportune moment and gave encouragement and help to the council of ministers and their supporters wilson speech head president wilson's thrilling allu sion to the russian revolution in his address to congress has made a deep and lasting impression on the russian people woman offers her blood for bernhardt new york april s â€” reports that blood transfusion was being con sidered to save the life of sarah bernhardt brought to mount sinai hospital to-day a young woman who said she was willing to give her blood she was told no operation had been decided on earl of shannon killed in battle london april 24 3:20 a m â€” richard bernard boyle seventh earl of shannon has been killed in ac tion he was a lieutenant of the royal fusiliers john f mcfadden hit by car dies john p mcfadden auditor of dis bursements for montgomery ward _ co died at the polyclinic hospital last night from injuries suffered a few minutes before when a street car struck him mr mcfadden lived at liosb sheridan road chicagoans form council of defense armour shedd judson farwell on committee 100 other cities called to league association of commerce backs move sends appeal to munici palities of the west plans for the formation of a chi cago council of national defense were outlined yesterday at a conference of business men j ogden armour john g shedd i john v farwell and harry pratt judson were named organizing mem bers of the conference mobilization of all the resources of Chicago will be the principal ob ject of the council which will work in co-operation with the national comicil at washington the full personnel of the council was not decided upon at yesterday's conference which was informal as soon as the council is raised sub committees will be appointed to take charge of the details of work the Chicago council of defense will work in conjunction with rraimkar organizations to be formed in more than a hundred cities and towns in the middle west through the Chicago association of commerce the communities have been invited to send delegates to a war conference to be held in Chicago next saturday cities invited to join the Chicago associatlon'c invita tion follows the Chicago association of com merce invites your city to send two delegates to a conference on the mobilization of all the nation's re sources to most effectively meet the war's demands to be held in Chicago on saturday april 28 1917 at tlie hotel la salle it will be the purpose of the meeting to form a permanent or ganization to co-operate fully with the federal administration through tlhe national council of defense in many cities throughout the country local councils of defense are being formed in recognition of the necessity of unifying and co relating the work of all local civic commercial and patriotic bodies now striving in every practical way to meet the present national crisis roosevelt to speak the convention will be called to order at 10 a m there will be a luncheon given by the Chicago as sociation of commerce at 12:30 o'clock the afternoon session will j be called at 2:30 o'clock and will ; receive and discuss the reports of committees on permanent organiz ation and speakers of national rep utation will discuss the plans pro posed at 8 p in there will be a mass meeting at which colonel theodore roosevelt will be the speaker 835 cities in move the idea of local councils of de fense originated with marlin j gil len of racine he sent an outline of racine's plan to chambers of com merce and commercial clubs in 535 cities and towns all over the united states within three or four days word was received that local coun cils had already been formed in rock island and moline 111 fort wayne ind and fort atkinson wis the formation of similar councils in mil | waukee Chicago and many other j cities and towns is already under way it is expected that as the result of i the conference to be held here satur ! day a permanent defense council of i the middle west will be formed with a central office in Chicago and an j able and experier ced executive sec retary in charge draft debate holds house in deadl ock passage of war department bill unamended by senate assured two branches work at odds politics charged as representa tives assert the measures con flict in conscription plans washington april 23 80th houses of congress to-day considered bills to raise an army for the war with germany universal military service through selective draft was discussed to the exclusion of all else debate was spirited in the house it grew bitter there proponents of the majority report from the military affairs committee advocating trial of the volunteer sys tem before conscription clashed with partisans of the minority report ad vocating immediate and universal compulsory military service neither measure as reported to the house is the war department bill â€” supported by the administration senate for bill that bill now irl the senate will be adopted with the selective draft section unamended exhaustive de bate is expected however by mem bers of the committee the failure of the house committee to report on the general staff bill has forced the two branches of con gress into working at cross purposes representative atwell of louisiana pointed out to-day he deplored the delay in raising and training troops an advocate of universal service he blamed politics and pleaded with the house to accept the senate bill facts uphold draft converts were won to the selective draft by the speech of senator wads worth of new york in the senate ke spoke for almost three hours an swering scores of questions he has made a special study of the military systems as developed in great wars in the house the real fight was on the immediate adoption of conscrip tion many insisted the volunteer system must be tried at least ap plause for speakers on both sides was so evenly divided not even leaders would predict the final action the draft was lashed as undem ocratic and against all traditions of a nation of freemen the volunteer system was assailed as a nursery of cowards and slackers it was charged it would keep them in com fort and plenty while patriotic men offered their lives on the field of battle galleries are divided hour after hour the debate was waged without a wavering in the lines on either side now stormy and bitter with question and retort crackling like lightning and again calm in reasonable and logical ap peal the house will vote thursday evening on whether the president shall be limited to trial of the volun teer system before he can make a military draft i it will also decide as an alternative whether he shall be empowered to call into military service all fit men ; between the ages of twenty-one and u s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” showers tuesday and wednesday with slowly rising temperature fresh easterly winds temperature for twenty-four hours ending at _. a __. : highest 45j lowest w average 4 normal temperature for the day 49 deficiency of temperature sines january 1 i pntipitation lor twenty-four hours ending at 7 p m 04 i)eficieucy i,f precipitation since january 1 3.15 relative humidity 7 a m 90 li p m 64 7 p m 62 i harometric pressure reduced to sea level 7 ! a m 30.04 7 x m 30.03 sunrise to-d&y 4:55 sunset 6:41 ccmpl-te ffcr eminent report on page 13 strike spreads to hamburg food scarce copenhagen april 23 an american just arrived from hamburg says hamt^rg last week was affected by the same strike movement as berlin a big demonstration led even to sus pension of the card system for the day during which it was possible to buy bread and as far as available potatoes the american saw albert ballin director general of the hamburg - american steamship company who has close relations with the german authorities and confirms the report herr ballin expects an early peace straus charges a 1 5,000 plot confession made in state's at torney's office by two women accuses lawyer remus confessions which accuse george remus an attorney of endeavoring to extort 15,000 from arthur w straus vice president of s w straus & co mortgage bankers are in pos session of state's attorney hoyne the confessions were made by two women lesslng rosenthal and leo f wormser counsel for mr straus an nounced last night they will confer with the state's attorney to-day about the case girl witness in convent mrs edith m stone 5337 indiana avenue according to attorney rosen thal is one of the witnesses the name of the other â€” she is only nine teen ears old â€” was suppressed be cause she since has entered a con vent mr straus was introduced to airs stone and the young woman by a friend while dining at the brevoort hotel last december said mr ro senthal it wasn't until february that they went to remus office they expected to get 400 or 500 between them remus sent a letter to mr straus according to the con fessions of the women asking him to go to see him about the case breach of promise charged our client called remus up and asked him what he wanted and re mus said he had a young woman client who had a breach of promise suit against him the action he said was for 50,000 later mr straus received a letter stating if he did not settle suit would be started he then went to remus office first 15,000 was de manded then i_,ooo next 7,500 and finally 2,000 mr straus then con sulted mr wormsei he explained he had met the young woman once while dining and asked me what he should do interposed mr wormsei i told him if he want ed to be a coward he could settle but that he should go through with the matter and not pay one cent girl arrested confesses march 31 the younger woman was taken into custody by the state's at torney's office and according to as sistant statels attorney marvin e bernhart confessed to him her charges mr barnliart says were corroborated by mrs stone attorney rosenthal said it would be an injustice to disclose the name of the young woman she was left an orphan when fourteen years old when her mother died her father had deserted her and her mother when she was three years old mr straus is married and has two children living at 4715 drexel boule vard the examiner made diligent efforts to find mr remus last night his residence is given 4700 broadway no mr kemus is not here and hasn't been here for two weeks he doesn't live here any more said a woman who said she was mrs re mus at that address last night business men to vote upon taxes for war washington april 23.â€”sug gestions for financing the war drawn up by a committee of the chamber of commerce of the united states are increasing individual income taxes through supertaxes and low ering of exemptions 400,000,000 additions to the present excess profits tax 200,000,000 an increase of 50 per cent in the first-class postage rates 250,000,000 stamp taxes 100,000,000 excise taxes on articles of lux ury 500,000,000 u-36 reported captured here submarine said to have been en tangled in net at newport news taken by warship new york april 24 â€” the new tork herald prints the following newport news va april 23 â€” a prussian submarine the u-36 was caught in a net near newport news va accoi'ding to a circumstantial re port in circulation here to-day and she is either now on the way to the new tork navy yard at brooklyn or has arrived there the submarine is said to have been captured by the crew of one of the largest american battleships the submarine became entangled in a net and before she could back away the elevating planes became involved and she could not free herself immediately the warning was sounded and the officers and crew of the prussian undersea craft sur rendered the submarine was not seriously damaged and was placed in charge of competent men and with a con voy or a tow started for new york harbor the story of the capture of the u-36 came out here to-night when officers of a battleship came ashore gen j off re and viviani coming to Chicago general joffre world war hero and former field marshal of france is coming to Chicago with him will be premier viviani and the entire french war commission to the united states messages have been sent to mayor thompson the party will arrive in washington to-day or to morrow bernhardt rallies has chance for life by international news service new york april 23 â€” after twen ty-four hours of what was described as a pretty serious time sarah bernhardt was resting comfortably to-night one of the doctors said she has a chance but we are work ing pretty hard over her vernon castle trains aviators in halifax halifax april 22 â€” vernon cas tle r f c british army that's the title now of the dancer castle was discovered here to-day in charge of a detachment of aviators who will train recruits at toronto for the royal flying corps carter h harrison to raise regiment carter h harrison live times mayor of Chicago will raiss a regi ment here when ire returns firotn south america he say in a uiler to murray keller a chlcaep fv ll first u.s loan 500 million to britain j program for peace court will occupy prominent place in war mission's deliberations germany must surrender first president envoy and lansing confer whole resources of america pledged by executive allies aid also promised v washington april 23 the war can end only with a ger man appomattox geoffrey butler spokesman for the balfour war mission dismisse-d i all thought of immediate peacs tc day with this statement mr balfour is not thinkin peace said mr butler this war mission he has brought to the united states to give what assistance he can to your government in avoid ing the mistakes the british made at the beginning it was your general grant who said let us have peace but it was after appomattox that he uttered that sentiment 500,000,000 loan to britain agreed on the statement dismissing present peace discussions followed the fort five minutes conference of mr witl son and mr balfour at the whuej house secretary of state lansir.s was the only other person present the nature of the discussion will be learned only through the acts of the immediate future but it was m m nounced not less than 9500.000.000h the 7,000,000,000 war fund ml nvnilable to-day will be lcs^ed m great britain nh the nature of the discussion vh j be learned only through the acts mm the immediate future h among the plana to he dlscnsaed fh the balfour mission said to have h approval of the united states ix fl eminent is the establishment of h independent jewish stnte in fale^j tine the proposal is in line with fres l dent wilson's announced policy of aiding the smaller peoples to attain autonomy and it would have not only the support of the greater part of the jewish world but also of the christian world â€” in sentiment as least â€” as palestine has the most treasured monuments of the chris tian faith and it has long been the hope they could be wrested from the mohammedans gt among the entente powers tlilh is said to be a strong sentiment 1 favor of placing the jrroposed n-pi^b lie under the protectorate of h united states because of the ale^b nes.s of this country from europe^m politics mm tripartite conference to map world peace plan 1 when the business of the tripartii war conference is taken up iu i'tidrÃŸ tion to the problems of men food r._b money there will come before the conferees a eomprehensive plan for j the future peace of the world j diplomatic denials may be made j but it is known on absolute authority the far-seeing statesmen of the en-s tente which now includes the unitedh states are looking forward to a nlaaÃŸ nich embraces these essential d*-fl tails creation of a peace ctihiilsslob^j which shall adjudge the terms oi^-mw which the peaee of the world sfu^fl be fixed this commission sow ll mm i k on the for.tr of n mmw 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